Zelda Lockhart
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Zelda Lockhart is a contemporary African-American writer, speaker, teacher and researcher. Her latest novel Trinity was published in July 2023.[1] She is the director of LaVenson Press[2] and Her Story Garden Studios.[3] Her recent books include Diamond Doris: The True Story of the World’s Most Notorious Jewel Thief by Doris Payne with Zelda Lockhart (2019), and 20/20: A Living & Learning poetry collection (2017).[4] She is the author of three novels: Fifth Born (2003), Cold Running Creek (2006),[5] and Fifth Born II: The Hundredth Turtle (2010).[6] Her first novel was published to critical acclaim and was a finalist for an award—for a debut novel—from the Zora Neale Hurston/Richard Wright Legacy Foundation.[7] Her novels emphasize the struggles, sexual trauma, and triumphs of African and Native American women historically and contemporarily. Her research focuses on inquiries into intergenerational healing and the ways creating personal experience-based literature while consuming personal experience-based literature has the potential to be emotionally, psychologically, and socially transformative for individuals. Areas of interest are Black women and girls, Native populations, people of color, LGBT individuals and financially disenfranchised people. In her position as director of LaVenson Press and Her Story Garden Studios, Lockhart seeks to create a space where women can "self-define through writing and publishing."[8] She is currently Associate Professor of Creative Writing and African American Literature at North Carolina Central University.
Education[edit]
Lockhart holds a PhD in expressive therapies from Lesley University, a MA in English literature with creative writing emphasis from Old Dominion University, a BA in English from Norfolk State University, and a Certificate in Film Studies from New York Film Academy.[9]
Awards and praise[edit]
Lockhart was named the 2010 Piedmont Laureate.[10] She is a 2012 Distinguished Alumna of Old Dominion University.[11]
Lockhart's first novel, Fifth Running (2003), was a 2002 Barnes & Noble Discovery selection and a finalist for the Zora Neale Hurston/Richard Wright Legacy Foundation's award for debut fiction.[12]
Lockhart's Cold Running Creek won the Black Caucus of the American Library Association's Honor Book award for fiction in 2008.[13] Fifth Born II was a 2011 Lambda Literary Award Finalist for lesbian fiction.[14] She is author of The Soul of the Full-Length Manuscript: Turning Life's Wounds Into the Gift of Literary Fiction, Memoir, or Poetry.[15]
See also[edit]
- Jaki Shelton Green - 1st Piedmont Laureate (2008)
References[edit]
- ^ "Trinity". HarperCollins. Retrieved April 28, 2024.
- ^ "LaVenson Press: Publishing for Women & Girls of Color". LaVenson Press. Retrieved April 29, 2024.
- ^ "Her Story Garden Studios". Her Story Garden Studios. Retrieved April 29, 2024.
- ^ "20/20: A Living & Learning poetry collection". Amazon.com.tr. April 30, 2024. Retrieved April 30, 2024.
- ^ Lockhart, Zelda (May 4, 2024). Cold Running Creek: Lockhart, Zelda: 9780978910204. LaVenson Press. ISBN 978-0978910204.
- ^ "Zelda Lockhart - Search Results". search.worldcat.org.
- ^ "NCWN's 14 for '14: Zelda Lockhart". North Carolina Writers' Network. September 26, 2014. Retrieved December 3, 2014.
- ^ Lockhart, Zelda. "Biography". Zelda Lockhart website. Retrieved December 3, 2014.
- ^ "Zelda Lockhart author of Fifth Born and Cold Running Creek". zeldalockhart.com. Archived from the original on March 5, 2005.
- ^ "NOVELIST ZELDA LOCKHART SELECTED AS 2010 PIEDMONT LAUREATE". US Federal News Service, Including US State News. December 19, 2009. ProQuest 471827196.
- ^ "Distinguished Alumni Awards". Old Dominion University Alumni Association. Retrieved December 3, 2014.
- ^ "NOVELIST ZELDA LOCKHART SELECTED AS 2010 PIEDMONT LAUREATE | Triangle Arts and Entertainment". December 21, 2009.
- ^ "BCALA announces the 2008 Literary Awards Winners". American Library Association. January 14, 2008. Retrieved December 3, 2014.
- ^ "23RD ANNUAL LAMBDA LITERARY AWARD FINALISTS AND WINNERS". Lambda Literary. Retrieved December 3, 2014.
- ^ "Finding A Path From Pain To Publication". WUNC.